Tag Archives: love

Dear You (Who Isn’t Ready For Me)

Posted on November 4, 2016 by Melanie Laura

in all of my openings there is a silent space a width that expands or a come hither or the larger part of the most honest part of me and it spells ‘yes’ like lips parting and breath leaving or … Continue reading →

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Why Are You Afraid of Love?

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Melanie Laura

I wrote about inter-generational trauma, emotional labor and femininity and masculinity after watching BeyoncĂ©’s Lemonade. This piece went live on The Establishment yesterday. It’s my first paid piece and I’m very proud of it 😉 Here’s an excerpt: I will … Continue reading →

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Letters Home

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Melanie Laura

What black lies in white with brown smudges?
what hands lie in wait for mixing colors?
I want to paint blue in front of you
hold services for your adolescence Continue reading →

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Longer Around

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Melanie Laura

I’m rounded and warm on the table
a solid bowl for you
in the wake of your flesh leak, I think mostly of your eyes
the outline of the space between your give and my bite
or the shadow that follows the shape of you, when you’re facing me
now I am out and over, with a spoon
ready to be slapped or served to you Continue reading →

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Mirror Limit

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Melanie Laura

Now it’s nearly Valentine’s Day
and I am painted red with your hands
and your splitting chest
soon you will be sliced open and closed back up Continue reading →

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Bubble wrap

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Melanie Laura

I could not taste you close, when you first fed you were brown and beige colored memory then nearly four years later, we met again between Fort Greene stares my rolled up hair and my fingers numb I was cold … Continue reading →

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Halves

Posted on September 21, 2015 by Melanie Laura

What is white that fits in Black and white halves and Black smash? I bet his hands would hold the stretch I bet my body would shake, if pressed I was full of sex and honesty full of him and … Continue reading →

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Dear You (Who I Still Haven’t Met)

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Melanie Laura

I want you to taste my raw with your rage and fuck me out of my childhood pain love me like the last three years love me like still bodies after long talks silence welcomed and arms dropped fingers open and 34 … Continue reading →

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Dear you (who I haven’t met yet)

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Melanie Laura

I know we may come from different places
but you’ll always be honest with me
Put your all out on the table and
fuck me with your vulnerability Continue reading →

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Cracked

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Melanie Laura

I was sure your taste on my gums had evaporated but I found you awake in my hands sliding down my wrists like a messy egg yolk stopping first between my palms then between my thighs so I tried to … Continue reading →

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